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Dr. Jessie Christiansen from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech interviews the brilliant minds behind the discoveries of planets orbiting other stars.
Explore Astro hosts Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers, a education show with 18 episodes published.
Vanishing Vulcans🌋💨👻 Spock's home planet is probably one of the most famous exoplanets, thanks to Star Trek lore. Turns out, Vulcan has a storied past in our own solar system's history, which Dr. Ben Montet shares in
Innocent Until Proven Planet! 🛰️⚖️🪐 "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle Dr. Ben Montet set out to study black holes and then radio tr
💙 An Avatar of Pandora? 💙 Did the movie Avatar predict the discovery of the holy grail of exoplanets: a nearby Earth-like rocky planet orbiting a Sun-like star? Drs. Jessie Christiansen and Ashley Chontos continue thei
Worth the Wait 🛰️⏳📅🪐 NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope found its first planet candidate in 2009. Ten years later, KOI-4.01 was finally confirmed as an exoplanet by a team led by Dr. Ashley Chontos. The confirmati
Hollywood 🎥 vs. Kepler-22 b 🪐 Jessie returns to her chat with Dr. Bruce Macintosh, Director of the University of California Observatories, and he explains why Kepler-22 b is his LEAST favorite exoplanet—even though its
Exoplanet Trifecta: Seeing and Believing 🤩👀🔭🪐🪐🪐 What is it like to spend eight years chasing down hundreds of possible planets that turn out to be false positives, and then discover three planets at once? It takes
A Planet Around a Dead, Spinning Star 🌀😵💫 How realistic is the science in Interstellar, and have we found anything close to an actual Miller's Planet? In part 2 of Jessie's interview with Dr. David Kipping, they chat
Dr. David Kipping of Columbia University, host of the popular Cool Worlds Podcast, is looking beyond exoplanets: he's set his sights on finding exomoons! Watch and find out which exoplanet David thinks might have its own
Is Middle Earth an Exoplanet? 🧝🧙🧭📜🏰⛰️🌋🪐 In part 2 of her interview, Dr. Emily Gilbert makes a convincing case that Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings series is actually its own planet! Watch and tell us if you
What's better than discovering an exoplanet? How about discovering THREE exoplanets...all at once! Early-career researcher Dr. Emily Gilbert talks about the exoplanet bonanza of the TOI-700 system that made headline news
Is there a planet near the center of our galaxy like Trantor? Jessie shares what she's found in the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and Peter answers a viewer question: "How old do stars have to be to have planets?" 🌟🪐🪐🪐
All Roads Lead to AU Mic ⛔🔭🪐 Despite denial, discouragement and telemarketing jobs, Dr. Peter Plavchan found a path to a career in astronomy...and a famous exoplanet! Join Jessie as she chats with Peter about how he di
A Real-life Tatooine?🪐☀️☀️ Did Jessie go to a galaxy far, far away to find a real-life counterpart to Tatooine, Etienne's favorite fictional planet?
Jessie chats with Dr. Etienne Bachelet about how stars can bend light, and how we can use that phenomenon to find exoplanets.
Jessie continues her chat with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and reveals whether she's found a real-life Roshar in the NASA Exoplanet Archive or if that multi-planet system is still a fantasy. The
IPAC's Dr. Jessie Christiansen chats with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on how she splits starlight into rainbows (a.k.a. Extreme Precision Radial Velocity) to study exoplanets, which of the six p
Forbidding and Forbidden Planets: In this second half of Dr. Jessie Christiansen's interview with Dr. Chas Beichman, we find out why Altair 4 is Chas's favorite fictional planet and if there are any real planets like it
Blowtorch On A Planet! In this inaugural episode, Jessie finds out why her boss, Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Dr. Charles Beichman, is considered a pioneer in exoplanet research. Dr. Beichma
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